Carboy truck



M. PINE CARBOY `TRUCK Dec. 5, 1933.

2 Sheets-Sheet 1 lFiled Dec. 2, 1931 l jvENToR Meh/m Pin@ ATTORNEY Dec. 5, 1933. M. p|NE 5 1,937,668

CARBOY TRUCK Filed Deo. 1931 2 sheets-sheet 2 M ATTORNEY Patented Dec. 5, 1933 UNITED STATES l CARBQY TRUCK Melvin Pine, Jamaica, N. Y., assigner toy Schwenk Safety Device Corporation; New York, N. Y., a corporation of New York Application December 2, 1931. Serial No. 578,597

3 claims. v 01. 254-8) This invention relates to improvements in barrel or drum trucks, and has more particular relation to trucks for handling encased carboys.

One of the principal objects of the invention 5 is to provide a transporting truck of light and cheap construction, and capable of transporting a carboy and allowing lits contents to be readily withdrawn by the tilting of the carboy at any time.

A further object of the invention is to provide a carboy truck which may be rolled about a carboy standing on the floor to pick it up from its standing position.

A further object of the invenion is to provide a carboy truck of such a nature that the encased carboy may be clamped into a swinging frame on the truck and raised or lowered in its swinging frame from or towards the floor.

The invention also has other objects, all of which will be hereinafter more particularly set forth and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings forming .part of this specification, f v l Figure 1 represents a perspective View of a truck embodying my invention,y with a carboy mounted therein; the carboy being in positiony to pour its contents into a container resting upon the floor.

Figure 2 represents a perspective view of the three major elements of the truck separated to more clearly illustrate them.

Figure 3 represents an enlarged side elevation of my improved truck, the carboy being shown in dotted lines in its vertical position.

proved truck without the carboy, and

Figure 5 represents an end elevation of v my improved truck. f

Described in general terms, the truck comprises 40 two independently constructed horses provided with Wheels or rollers a carboy holding frame or cradle and trunnion projections which are mounted in extended journal bearings of the respective horses. The assembly of the cradle and the trunnion bearings is effected by a rigid yoke which,-

in effect, constitutes an operating lever for raising the carboy from the floor to swinging position whereby it may be oscillated on lthe trunnions without touching theoor. The relation of these several parts is best seen in the disjointed Figure 2.

'Ihe effect of providing two independent roller horses that are not connected by any lateral braces except the operating yoke lever, is to leave the truck free to be rolled over and about the Figure 4 represents a top plan view of my im-f carboy resting upon the Vfloor so that when 'the carboy is slightly tipped, ,the cradle may be` slipped under it as it ress uponthe oor and then secured in position, and the carboy` and cradle raisedv free of the floor by the manipulation of the' yoke 60y lever which at the time would be in a vertical position. i Described in detail, and referring more particularly to Figure 2, Ithe triangularframes 1, forming the side horses, are provided with rubber tired wheels 2, s'o thatv they Yconstitute portable horses. Each of these triangular horses is provided at the upper peak of the triangle with extended journal bearings 3, and one of*A the horses is provided with a stop arm 4 having a'st'op plate 5. AThe 70 onice of the extended journalbearings 3 is to give rigidity to theY whole truck Aas when the parts are assembled, as shown in Figurel, with thetwo horses 1 on opposite sides of .the carboy cradle, 6, the only tie between the horses `to hold themi in position is the yoke lever 7. This yyokelever 7 is pivoted at its opposite ends 8 1110011 thecradle frame 6, and each of the side tines of the klever is provided with an extended journal studi);l 'Each of these studs being apertured at its outer end as at 10, 'so that when the journal bearings 3 are slipped over the studs, Cotter pins 11 may be dropped through the apertures of the studs to hold the cradle andthe horses assembled. VThe cradle 6, as best shown in Figure 2, is made 85 up of side frames 12, the back frame 13, and a bottom frame 14. The side frames 12 will not extend as far as either the frames 13 or 14, and the top bar of the frame 13 is provided upon its inner side with aseries of holding spikes 15, which, when the carboy is in position, bite into the wood case 16 of the carboy 17, and prevent any slipping forward of the carboy case when the entire 'cradle is tilted `to pour the contents of the carboyinto some receptacle resting upon the '95 floor near the truck. The yoke 7 is provided with a lateral pin 16 which, when the lever is drawn into its lower position to raise the carboy l in its upper position, engages av gravity latch 16 1056 pivoted on one of the horses 1, to hold the lever in this depressed position. This, of course, will elevate the cradle into its higher position'as best shown in Figure 3 and will permit the entire Ytruck with the carboy mounted Y therein Ato be pushed about from place to place. In order to secure the carboy within the cradle and provide 1 against possibility of displacement', a chain V18 is passed about the carboy, one end of this chain Y Y being secured to the side frames 12 anda hook 1,'10

19 of the chain being hooked through an aper- N ture 20 formed in thel other side frame.

In operation, the lever 7 is rst unlatchedV and moved to its upper Vposition as the truck is brought into proximity to; the carboy with the horses 1--1 oneach side of the carboy. A slight tipping of the carboy will enable the bottom le "of thebradle-to be slipped under the bottom of 2oy necessary to providemeans against .any forward forward until it engages the point 15.

the carboy andl the latterY tipped and pushed Y The chain is then secured in position about the carbcy case and the lever '7 drawn downward.

As the trunnions 9 become thepivotal point of the lever, the carboy l2 is thus elevated because of the pivotal connection of the ends of the Ylever with the cradle. v

rIhelevervislatched in position as above described and the truck is ready for transportation or rollinggabout. y Y

At the time thatj the bottom 14 of thecradle is being slipped under the tipped carboy, it is tipping "of 1 the cradle that mightV bring it` into Vbinding v,contact with the rloor, itbeing under- A,stoordfthat when the cradle is lowered by drawingliheilever 'l upward, vit only rests lightlyy upon the-floor Vso 'that the truck may be moved forward. Inorder'to secure this nicety of adjustment rl'ietweenthe cradle and the floor, Iprovide thev rigidstopgarm 4 having thev aforesaid stop plate 5. -This plate as best shown in Figure 3 `two Ai;i'dre pe;tident horses, having no rigid lateral connection whatever, these horses are held in alignmentand preventedfrom weaving or wobblingby the large extended bearings 3 in which the'trunnions 9 are mounted. Y, l

It 'rl/'illV be seen. that any' tendency 'o-i'either one of thejhorsestomove out of alignment with the cradle. will Joe resisted byY an extended journal bearing'connected'to the rigid yoke cover and that all theadvantages of moving the truck over the carboy and nallyunder the carboy wthoutany interference from lateral connections, is thus secured. f

t will .be understood.' that the absence of lateral connection betweeny the horses, at the forward end allows the carboy to be tilted asshown in Figure l, and pour its contents directly into any receptacle resting on the floor andV close up against the pouring4 position. 'Further the cradle may be reversed at' any timev` desired in its connections so that the carboy may be picked up Y from either direction.

' `Having thus described my invention, what I claim ias new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. In afcarboy truck, the combination with spacedindependent*portable horses, of a rigid pivoted yoke lever forming the only means of connection between the horses to hold them in parallel alignment, extended lateral journal bearings mounted on the respective horses, a carboy cradle pivotally connected at yopposite sides tothe parallel arms ofthe yoke lever so that ,thecarboy mayremain upright between the arms of the lever when the latter is being oper- Sil ated, and lateraljournal studs on the opposedllod` arms of the lever operating in thelateral journals on the horses thus bracing the horses against lateral displacement` j 2. In a'carboy truck, the combination with spaced independent portable horses, of. aY yoke 195 lever for raisingand supporting a carboy cradle and forming the only ,m'eans'for connecting and racing the horses to hold them in parallel alignmenta carbonlcradle located in the freejspa'ce between the horses, and pivotal means connecting the arms ofthe lever to the oppositesides of the cradle for raising and lowering the `latter with the carbo-y in anupright position. Y n

-3. In Ya carboy truck,the combination with spaced independent portable horses, of ayoke 

